A critical question for NEC researchers: Can we create a consensus definition of NEC that facilitates research progress?

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 7-14

  Gordon, Phillip V ^a   Swanson, Jonathan R ^b   MacQueen, Brianna C ^c   Christensen, Robert D ^c  

^a Sacred Heart Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Gestational age; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Pneumatosis; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSENSUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEONATOLOGY; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSFUSION; ANIMAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONSENSUS; DATASETS AS TOPIC; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; NEONATOLOGY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 85006827026     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2016.09.013     Document Type: Review

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